The Walk to Cure Diabetes is on Saturday, Nov. 2, at Time Warner Cable Pavilion. The event involves more than 7,000 individuals from families and companies across the Triangle who are working to raise almost $1 million dollars to cure type 1 diabetes.

The Walk includes more than 500 family and company teams, and over the past 17 years it has raised more than $11 million to support type 1 diabetes research and programs.

More than 3 million people are living with type 1 diabetes; it can strike at any age in any family, and every day 40 children are newly diagnosed with type 1 diabetes.